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Welcome to Enterprise 2.0

Alex sourced this gem.

I'm so jealous...

As I sit here and wade through an email distribution alias -- let's call it litebulbous -- that MSers use to discuss new ideas, I'm just seething. Here I am trying to follow interesting discussions across multiple email threads. Email distribution lists! Yuck! It's got to be the absolute worst way to approach this subject. How utterly 90's; how Pony Express; how "home-page".

So my team is likely going to rev Tagspace and deliver it internally as an MS corporate (secure) tagging solution (not the long term plan, just a short term test of the service). I wonder how long, if ever, it will take to convince these folks that blogging a new idea, tagging it "litebulbous", following the RSS feed for the "litebulbous" tag, and using the comments feature of the blog for discussion of the subject is the better way to go. Simple, clean, searchable across the enterprise -- what's not to like?

Published Sunday, December 03, 2006 1:11 AM by bobreb

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# re: Welcome to Enterprise 2.0

Monday, December 04, 2006 4:08 PM by joemorel

I can't agree more--I can't stand trying to following email distribution lists.  They're awful to read through, even worse to read remotely, and worse yet, they are horrible to search through.  The one advantage that they have is the one that might keep people from using another platform though--they are already part of something that is super-efficient for most people to use...Outlook.  People can read and reply much, much more quickly than on the web.  They can reply during their long bus rides to and from work.  They can reply to all, or easily "little-r" somebody for a private message.  There's no new account setup.  The editor is something everyone's familiar with (Word).

I remember having a conversation with some people on my team on how we could kick people off of our technical support DLs and onto more web-style discussions, but not being able to use Outlook and having to be connected was an issue.

With RSS being built in to Outlook, if there was a way to reply to an RSS feed without having to go to a website...

# re: Welcome to Enterprise 2.0

Monday, December 04, 2006 10:30 PM by bobreb

Agreed. The one thing that's hard to duplicate is the ubiquity of email access. Conversations happening on either blog posts or within forums (behind firewalls) is that you have to be logged into the corporate net to take advantage of them.

That, however, is a price I'd often pay. Perhaps not always -- but often.

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